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creators_name: Bettini, Lorenzo
creators_name: De Nicola, Rocco
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creators_id: r.denicola@imtlucca.it
title: Translating Strong Mobility into Weak Mobility
ispublished: pub
subjects: QA75
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
abstract: Mobile agents are software objects that can be transmitted over the net together with data and code, or can autonomously migrate to a remote computer and execute automatically on arrival. However many frameworks and languages for mobile agents only provide weak mobility: agents do not resume their execution from the instruction following the migration action, instead they are always restarted from a given point. In this paper we present a purely syntactic translation process for transforming programs that use strong mobility into programs that rely only on weak mobility, while preserving the original semantics.This transformation applies to programs written in a procedural language and can be adapted to other languages, like Java, that provide means to send data and code, but not the execution state.It has actually been exploited for implementing our language for mobile agents X-Klaim, that has linguistic constructs for strong mobility.

date: 2001
date_type: published
series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
volume: 2240
publisher: Springer
pagerange: 182-197
id_number: 10.1007/3-540-45647-3_13
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 3-540-42952-2
book_title: Mobile Agents
editors_name: Picco, Gian Pietro
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45647-3_13
projects: This work has been partly supported by MURST Projects SALADIN and TOSCA.
citation:   Bettini, Lorenzo and De Nicola, Rocco  Translating Strong Mobility into Weak Mobility.   In:  Mobile Agents.   Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2240 .  Springer, pp. 182-197.  ISBN 3-540-42952-2      (2001)